GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER STANDARDS COUNCIL v. State

Barnes, Chief Judge.

The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (“the Council”) appeals the order of the Superior Court of Decatur County requiring the Council to pay for the costs of transcripts in three criminal cases and to pay for transcripts in any future cases in which transcripts were requested by the Council on behalf of indigent defendants. According to the trial court’s rule nisi, “[t]his issue arose when the local public defenders sought copies of the transcripts in two cases, and then took the position that the Council was not responsible for providing transcripts for defendants…